One painting that exemplifies Whistler’s vivid palette, The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, constitutes the centerpiece of the Peacock Room at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art.

Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight was first excavated in 1880-1881 revealing rooms with elaborate mosaic floors and many fragments of painted wall plaster. This fragment shows a peacock ...

Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight was first excavated in 1880-1881 revealing rooms with elaborate mosaic floors and many fragments of painted wall plaster. This fragment shows a peacock ...